Riccio, Corine and Katz
Posted on 02/18/2009 1:10:39 PM PST by gridlock
To avoid a potentially messy court fight, Gov. Jon Corzine has paid $362,500 to the brother-in-law of labor leader Carla Katz, his former girlfriend.
Corzine completed the confidential deal with Rocco Riccio, a former state employee, in late September after Riccio threatened to sue the millionaire governor for allegedly reneging on a promise to find him a private-sector job, the governor confirmed.
The payment marks the second time the governor has paid Katz or one of her relatives after publicly saying he had ended all financial ties to the labor leader he dated for two years.
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Riccio has said Corzine forced him out of the Turnpike Authority after reporters began asking questions about anonymous accusations he once snooped into the state tax records of potential political enemies. Riccio also has said he has been unable to find full-time work for nearly two years.
Corzine declined to comment beyond his statement and instead referred questions to his lawyer, Angelo Genova.
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Riccio, Corine and Katz
The Governor of New Jersey put himself in a terrible position by carrying on this relationship with a woman who represented a public service employees union while negotiations were ongoing. Now he is a deep-pocketed pinata who will settle for big bucks in order to keep the details out of the newspapers.
Corzine is in big trouble for this Fall’s elections. Either Christie or Lonagan is going to clean his clock.
ping for the list
He’s a democrat! LAY OFF of HIM!!
At least I think he’s a dem. Snipet doesn’t say...
No problem paying this off. NJ taxpayers will come to the rescue! (involuntarily, of course)
Leave John Corzine ALONE!!!!
Oh, he’s a Dem, all right. If he were an R, he would have been run out of town on a rail (and rightly so!).
So, after John Corzine goes down in flames in the first big election of the Barack Obama era, do you think they are going to say it means people are disaffected with the Democrats, or do you think they will blame the scandals?
what the F ???
F
Any questions?
Rocco Riccio? YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING, nice job by his parents!
Doesn’t sound like he has risen above his name, does it?
She looks kind of like Howard Stern in that picture.
She is not an unattractive woman. I will give Corzine his props for that. The picture is not the best.
ROTFL!!
For her sake I hope so.
Hey here's a bizzare fact: Our last 3 elected Governers have all broken a femur while in office. What are the odds!!??
LOL, that's a joke, right?
This is New Jersey we're talking about....
Here's a picture of the happy couple...
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